(19)
(11) EP 1 152 510 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
12.03.2003 Bulletin 2003/11

(43) Date of publication A2:
07.11.2001 Bulletin 2001/45

(21) Application number: 01110619.2

(22) Date of filing: 30.04.2001
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: H02G 11/00
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR
Designated Extension States:
AL LT LV MK RO SI

(30) Priority: 01.05.2000 JP 2000132404

(71) Applicant: Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
Osaka (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Sakai, Toshimitsu, c/o Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka (JP)
  • Hashino, Michiya, c/o Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka (JP)
  • Komiya, Shoichiro, c/o Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka (JP)
  • Matsuda, Takayuki, c/o Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka (JP)
  • Mizumoto, Michiyo, c/o Tsubakimoto Chain Co.
    Osaka-shi, Osaka (JP)

(74) Representative: Naumann, Ulrich, Dr.-Ing. 
Patentanwälte, Ullrich & Naumann, Luisenstrasse 14
69115 Heidelberg
69115 Heidelberg (DE)

   


(54) Flexible cable support and guide device


(57) A flexible support and guide device (1) includes a movable cable holder (4) wound around a pair of pulleys (2, 2) rotatably supported on opposite ends of a support rod (3). The cable holder is comprised of a looped belt (6) trained around the pulleys, and a pair of flexible tubes (7, 7) carried on an outer circumferential surface of the belt with ends of the tubes confronting each other mutually, the tubes accommodating within them cables (8). The cable holder has a movable end (11) formed jointly by one pair of mutually confronting ends of the two tubes for enabling connection of the cables to a mobile machine or a movable machine part, and a fixed end (12) formed jointly by the other pair of mutually confronting ends of the tubes for enabling connection of the cables to a fixed external power source.






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